US advanced nuclear recycling technologies firm Curio has signed a memorandum of understanding with NuScale Power and Framatome to evaluate how recovered materials from used nuclear fuel can support future fuel and product streams.
 

Centrus Energy Corp and X-Energy have signed an agreement for Centrus to provide enrichment services for low-enriched uranium and high-assay low-enriched uranium to fuel Xe-100 high-temperature gas-cooled small modular reactors.
 

Following "record levels of interest", the US Department of Energy has announced the selection of Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Idaho as potential host states for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses.
 

The third round of allocations under the HALEU Availability Program will support NASA's plans for a nuclear-powered mission to Mars and Radiant Industries' deployment of a microreactor for the US Air Force.
 

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved Framatome's request to allow its nuclear fuel facility in Richland, Washington, to manufacture TRISO fuel, while Lightbridge and QNI have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a framework for collaboration on the long-term supply of HALEU fuel.
 

The Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection, acting on behalf of the federal government, has approved an application from Framatome subsidiary Advanced Nuclear Fuels to expand its facility in Lingen for the production of fuel for VVER-1000 reactors. The approval is subject to strict conditions.
 

Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev told reporters in Beijing that Russia and China both think "a century ahead" in developing nuclear energy, and said the Russian state nuclear corporation plans to "continue localising fuel fabrication technologies".
 

France's nuclear safety regulator has published its opinion on the safety features proposed by Paris-headquartered innovative nuclear energy company Newcleo for its planned French mixed-oxide fuel facility, concluding that the provisions adopted by the company for its safety approach are satisfactory at this stage.
 

X-Energy subsidiary TRISO-X has received a grant from the State of Tennessee of USD11 million to support the continued development of its fuel fabrication campus in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, including a potential second commercial fuel facility and a dedicated research and development centre.